1. Painting Modern Life: Baudelaire and Crime Fiction.
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MILLS, KATHRYN OLIVER
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19TH century art , *MYSTERY fiction , *THEMES in art , *NINETEENTH century , *INTELLECTUAL life ,HISTORY & criticism - Abstract
The article explores ways in which French poet and author Charles Baudelaire inspired the literary genres of mystery, crime fiction, and detective novels in the nineteenth century. It tracks the origins of the genre from the memoirs of French policeman Eugène François Vidocq, leader of the first France's Brigade de Sûreté; to the short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” by Edgar Allen Poe; to Baudelaire's French translation of Poe's story. Other subjects considered include the impact of technological innovations on 19th century European society; Baudelaire's modern art aesthetics; and urban landscapes, duality, and the 1863 the Salon des Refusés in Paris, France in Baudelaire's writings.
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- 2008
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